Security is one of the most important elements of an operating environment. As you have seen in all our releases security was addressed in many new functions,
be it in the z/VSE Basic Security Manager (BSM), our products or components. We support the latest...

We are pleased to announce the availability of the IBM Rational Collaborative Lifecycle Management as a Managed Service (CLM aaMS) offering. This offering provides you with a managed, virtual private cloud environment to deploy Rational CLM (Rational DOORS...

The recent Invisible Thread blog on ‘ The Mars Climate Orbiter: what, why, and lessons learned ’ made me wonder if we have lost the art of good requirements engineering? Both teams went off to work on...

Built in the mid to late 90’s, the Mars Climate Orbiter was fitted with the most advanced technology of its time, and it featured dual redundant systems and triple redundant software copies! What could possibly go wrong?
It launched in...

Complexity is the biggest challenge in delivering innovative products, systems and applications today. Engineers rely on a wide variety of tools in their daily jobs to deal with this complexity. A couple of these tools are Mathworks Simulink , a very...

I am currently looking into a security requirement, which I received from a customer. It is in our new Request for Enhancements ( RFE ) database.
The request asks to "Eliminate the DTSECTAB" (RFE number 50467, was MR0605134213).
Some...

If the tool you’re using does not do what you need it to do in the way you were expecting, is the tool bad? Should it be consigned to a shelf to gather dust?
Having worked with software tools for a number of years, I understand that...

Your requirements have a direct impact on the content of future z/VSE releases. As you may have noticed, in z/VSE 5.2 we fulfilled 18 customer requirements. If we define the content for a new release, we always look into our requirements databases.
In...

Have you heard about IBM Rational DOORS Next Generation ? It is the new version of IBM Rational DOORS, which is the requirements management module in the IBM Systems and Software Engineering solution.
If you are...

Requirements for future enhancements are important for the z/VSE. You can influence the content of z/VSE releases with your input (requirement). If we define the line items for a new z/VSE release, we first look into our requirements database - independent on...

In the requirements session of last year's WAVV conference some new requirements were raised. See also my related blog entry in April 2013.
In between we looked into the requirements and have some feedback:
WAVV201301 - VSE/POWER...

Are you preparing for your next z/OS upgrade?
Do you need to confirm if your CICS Transaction Server (CICS TS) or one or more of your CICS Tools is compatible or needs any additional maintenance?
Does your site's IT governance...

Just before year end two new CICS TS for VSE APARs were released. You can find that APAR information and corresponding links on the " Fix list for CICS Transaction Server for VSE/ESA V1.1.1". It was just updated.There the CICS team documents released...

Just lately there was a customer requirement that asked for host name support in PSF/VSE. I also talked to a customer, who had the same question.
The Print Service Facility (PSF) for VSE provides Advanced Function Printing (AFP) capability and supports...

After some travel I am back in the office. I got lots of customer feedback and insight, which I will feed to the z/VSE team and use for future z/VSE releases. We are very dependent on customer input for z/VSE development of new functions. That is whenever you...

The IBM developerWorks Web site was under maintenance and I am in the US eastern time zone. Therefore the late posting.
I am still reviewing some z/VSE customer requirements.
They are for sure very important for customers, who raised them. I want...

It's already late, but I am preparing my presentations for GSE. Today's entry is related to service.
At WAVV the requirement was raised to provide a better way to retrieve the current APARs/PTFs.
The requirement text is:
The...

Prof. Lawrence Chung ( chung@utdallas.edu ) is in Computer Science at the University of Texas at Dallas. He has been working in System/Requirements Engineering and System/Software Architecture. He was the principal author of the research...

Join us for a customer panel discussion where experts in top companies from across various industries, discuss why they consider IBM Rational DOORS the best tool for managing requirements in their projects. In this webcast panel, participants share their...

A leading analyst and Systems Engineering expert, David Norfolk of Bloor Research recently published a white paper titled Reducing the risk of development failure with cost-effective capture and management of requirements. In this report, David dwells into the...

Have you looked at modules in Rational Requirements Composer (RRC) or DOORS Next Generation (DNG) yet? If not, I would suggest you take a look to see if it can help you better organize and manage your requirements. We think they're kind of a...

IBM Rational DOORS Next Gen is supported on Jazz platform helping you to collaborate with other Jazz platform tools like Rational Team Concert and Rational Quality Manager in your environment.
IBM Rational DOORS Next Generation provides additional...

Prof. Neil Maiden is Professor of Systems Engineering at City University London. He is and has been a principal and co-investigator on numerous EPSRC- and EU-funded research projects. He has published over 150 peer-reviewed papers in academic...